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Quantium

Since 2002 Quantium has combined the best of human and artificial intelligence to forge a better, more insightful world. Our solutions make sense of what has happened and what will, could or should be done to re-shape industries and societies around the needs of the people they serve.

As one of the world’s fully diversified data science and AI leaders we operate across every sector of the economy and we’re growing fast - with growth comes opportunity! We’re passionate about building out our team of smart, fun, diverse and motivated people.

We combine a team of experts that spans data scientists, actuaries, statisticians, business analysts, strategy consultants, engineers, technologists, programmers, product developers, and futurists – all dedicated to harnessing the power of data to drive transformational outcomes for our clients.

We actively foster a culture where our people can stretch themselves to reach their full potential.
We also know that work has to work for you, and modern life is fast-paced and balance can be tricky. You want to work where you are respected and valued as an individual, not a number. Quantium embraces a flexible and supportive environment dedicated to powering possibilities for our team members, clients and partners.

The Engineering team within Quantium is world class and has grown to more than 150 high calibre engineers across multiple disciplines, including:

·         Application Engineering

·         Data Engineering

·         DevOps Engineering

·         Site Reliability Engineering

·         Quality Engineering

Role summary

This role is to provide strategic engineering direction and leadership for the engineering capabilities that have been assembled to deliver cloud-based applications to Quantium’s customers. This person will be part of a leadership team that is responsible for leading the engineering capability of the Quantium Group to deliver on the growth plans of the business.  In conjunction with the Executive, engineering this role will develop and implement a detailed engineering strategy, leading and managing engineering teams in the Hyderabad office. The appropriate leader will bring engineering thought leadership and a proven ability to harness technology talent to drive commercial business outcomes. 

Key responsibilities

·         Oversee the engineering team leading the design, build and deployment of big data analytics solutions on Quantium’s cloud-based environments

·         Manage multiple teams of Engineers, with a particular focus on ensuring robust development plans and mentoring opportunities are in place and acted upon

·         Oversee the delivery of quality software and data assets as well as participation in the engineering community

·         Provide technical support for production applications and data pipelines

·         Communicate solutions and rationale to relevant business stakeholders

·         Engage with clients, vendors and other stakeholders as required

·         Work with the Architecture team and analytical stakeholders from around the business to develop sustainable solutions that will generate value for Quantium

·         Where required, support Leads to conduct thorough code reviews to ensure appropriate team development and drive process that will promote strong quality assurance

·         Drive the contribution of your team of developers to technology-specific 'communities' to share knowledge and experience across projects

·         Operate in and promote the agile methodology for effective solution delivery

·         Be a thought leader in Engineering by performing broad market analysis and research to be constantly up to date with what is going on the in the Engineering domain, uses of data and AI, competitor activities etc

·         Participate in preparation and delivery of executive briefings on these topics with clients and internally

·         Contribute to Quantium’s business strategy through participating in Product & Technology leadership meetings and provide opinion and advice to the leadership team

·         Provide expert input as required into development of Product & Technology strategy

·         Attend Quantium Day and Strategy Day and other key business meetings as required

Experience and education required

Must haves

·         Tertiary qualifications Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics or related industry

·         10 years’ commercial experience working in a data driven environment

·         5 years’ commercial experience in a data driven (ideally data dependent) environment in an engineering leadership role

·         Excellent written, verbal & presentation skills, leveraged both internally and externally

·         Strong leadership skills particularly within strategic initiatives such as technical direction of the engineering practice

·         Management experience managing a team of highly technical engineers

·         Strong experience effectively managing internal stakeholders

·         Exposure to Infrastructure as Code scripting tools such as Terraform or Ansible

·         Good understanding of CI/CD tooling and modern engineering practices particularly in the DevOps space

·         Passionate about solving problems and leading teams to write efficient code

·         Awareness of considerations around structuring data on distributed systems to support analytic use cases

·         Experienced working with a team of analysts and developers in a cross-functional and agile environment

What does success look like?

·         Collaborative working relationship with Executive group across Product Management, Analytics, Engineering, Data Management

·         Recommendations delivered and endorsed with peers & Executives on Quantium’s annual engineering roadmap

·         All direct reports and extended team members’ development plans and KPI’s are reviewed and confirmed

·         Existing development projects are delivered on time and within budget, or an action plan in place that is agreed with management

·         Robust processes are in place for recruitment and development of new talent into the team

·         Team are heavily involved in mentoring across the organisation and are active participants in the analytic and architectural communities

·         Quality standards for code are upward trending and have not fallen below existing standards

Key People and Leadership capabilities required

1.       Self-aware - you leverage diversity across people, tasks, client interactions and projects, taking responsibility for self and other

2.       Agile and innovative - you possess strong lateral thinking skills and actively develop these in others

3.       Achieve and perform - you have exceptional execution skills and are achievement focused

4.       Brand advocate - you anticipate and consider brand and cultural impact in decision making

5.       Purposeful and aligned - you are able to set clear, tangible objectives which deliver against our strategy

6.       Achievement oriented - you effectively facilitate challenging performance related conversations in a timely and appropriate manner

7.       Coach - you demonstrate the ability to coach and develop others while facilitating learning, growth and engagement